Hi,
I would like to ask if it is possible for iMail to accept adding of new user
automatically in the site?
Hope you can clarify this to me.
Thanks,
Remz
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Isabel
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?
Terry,
Thanks for your very informative reply. (I to was worrying about bounced
messaged, by the way.)
Your feedback is very much appreciated,
Guy
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From: "OurLists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?
> 1) I do not know of a way to force a personalized message with IMAIL's
list
> server
> 2) Yes - you could write single messages to IMAIL (or any other SMTP
server)
> by a variety of ways including blat, ASPQMail, Flicks, etc -
> 3) Definitely Win2k over NT -
>
> I've done this quite a bit and I've used various kinds of programs,
> databases, and techniques depending on the situation. You do need access
to
> quite a bit of bandwidth. Remember to figure additional for headers. A
4k
> message can easily grow to 15k or more with headers.
>
> Flicks component let's you always try the recipient's mail server first
and
> that is usually worth doing. Both AspQmail and Flicks have settings now
for
> scheduling too which might prove useful for your purpose. I have sent to
> 40,000 using AspQmail on a dual PII 400 with pretty much unlimited
bandwidth
> with good success. However, it was not using IMAIL as one of the mail
> servers.
>
> Actually I haven't really found anything faster to use for sending than
> Microsoft's SMTP server. For 50,000 I would use a script in WSH of
whatever
> program flavor you like and use the CDONTS component. However, for 50,000
> you'll want to make certain that you do not allow MS SMTP server to create
> unlimited connections because it will try to do just that. Another
problem
> believe it or not is that if you are sending to many, many mail servers
and
> many of those are trying to check reverse dns then you can actually
overload
> your dns servers. So it is good to try to stay in control.
>
> I think it is a good idea to give the recipient a link to click to unsub
> himself too but this is usually one of those pieces of advice normally
> disregarded by my clients. You
>
> Then there is the problem of band email addresses. A list of 50,000 that
> has not been dutifully maintained and worked can easily have 35% to 50%
bad
> addresses. A good list will have 10% so you do have to plan some method
for
> handling that. You can write a program to parse a bounced message and do
> something with it and then use that as a program alias and have your
sending
> account direct back to that program alias. Usually though you may want to
> just collect the bounces and then run a sniffer program against them all
and
> then do something with the addresses. But you still can expect a lot of
> them.
>
> Or at least that's my 2 cents and probably not worth that -
>
> Terry Fritts
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Isabel
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:39 PM
> To: IMail Forum
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?
>
>
> Greetings, IMail Forum members,
>
> I have been tasked with an "interesting challenge". I work for a large
> Canadian university and our Development and Alumni Relations department
> would like to send personalized newsletters once a month to about 50,000
> constituents, each message averaging about 4 KB, thus about 200 MB to
> deliver in total.
>
> For the sake of simplicity, assume that there are only 3 topics of
interest:
> A (Science), B (Sports) and C (Arts). In reality, it is more like 25
> topics. Each recipient has notified the department of the topics in which
> they are interested. For instance: A+B, A+C, B only, etc.
>
> A colleague of mine is writing a program that will output a list that will
> have one row per recipient showing the e-mail address and their topic(s)
of
> choice. The program could also output a text file containing the "collage"
> of appropriate topical sections for each recipient, thus making available
> the entire body of the text to be sent to him/her.
>
> Three questions (for now!):
>
> 1. Is there a clever way in IMail Server 6.05a of using the list server
> function, program aliases or perhaps IMAIL1.EXE in some combination to
> achieve this?
>
> 2. Would writing another program that calls IMAIL1.EXE (or perhaps
BLAT.EXE;
> by the way, which one is more efficient?) that goes through the list/table
> created by the aforementioned program to e-mail each recipient with the
> proper text body be a viable solution?
>
> 3. In either case, what hardware would you recommend for such a list
server?
> Which OS (Windows NT 4.0, W2K Server, W2K Advanced Server)?
>
> I know that LISTSERV in combination with LSMTP, both available from L-Soft
> International (http://www.lsoft.com/, specifically
> http://www.lsoft.com/products/default.asp?item=listserv_database), could
do
> of on-the-fly mail merge and send to a single list of 50,000 recipients.
> Unfortunately, this is not an option for us at the present time. We do
have
> LISTSERV but not LSMTP.
>
> Any advice and comments gratefully received :)
>
> Guy
>
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